The Pelican Book of English Prose: Eighteenth-century prose, 1700-80; edited by D.W. JeffersonMiddlesex] Penguin Books, 1956 |
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... poet . Thus far he drew from Gothic ideas , and these ideas , I think , would lead him no farther . But , as Spenser knew what belonged to classic composition , he was tempted to tie his subject still closer together by one ex- pedient ...
... poet . Thus far he drew from Gothic ideas , and these ideas , I think , would lead him no farther . But , as Spenser knew what belonged to classic composition , he was tempted to tie his subject still closer together by one ex- pedient ...
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... Poet THOMSON was blessed with a strong and copious fancy ; he hath enriched poetry with a variety of new and original images , which he painted from nature itself , and from his own actual observations : his descriptions have therefore ...
... Poet THOMSON was blessed with a strong and copious fancy ; he hath enriched poetry with a variety of new and original images , which he painted from nature itself , and from his own actual observations : his descriptions have therefore ...
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... poet and dramatist , and friend of Pope and Swift , is best known for The Beggar's Opera ( 1728 ) , the first example of ' ballad opera ' . His poems are excellent specimens of Augustan wit and grace . Gibbon , Edward ( 1737-94 ) , our ...
... poet and dramatist , and friend of Pope and Swift , is best known for The Beggar's Opera ( 1728 ) , the first example of ' ballad opera ' . His poems are excellent specimens of Augustan wit and grace . Gibbon , Edward ( 1737-94 ) , our ...
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